2015年CRI Mainland, Taiwan Negotiators Review Their Achievements

 

Negotiators from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan have met in Taipei to review achievements in their talks since 2008.

The Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait, or ARATS, and its Taiwan counterpart the Straits Exchange Foundation, looked back on 11 rounds of cross-Strait talks which led to 23 agreements.

Zheng Lizhong, executive vice¹ president of the ARATS, says the two associations have removed many barriers in exchanges and smoothed interaction between the mainland and Taiwan.

"People on both sides across the strait are members of one family. We will try our best to do everything as long as it will be beneficial, improving the affection and well-being² of the compatriots on both sides, as well as benefit the promotion³ and peaceful development of cross-Strait relations."

Shih Hui-fen, vice chair of Taiwan's SEF, says the talks have covered issues that are vital to ordinary people's lives.

"For more than 7-years, the ARATS and the SEF have signed agreements and put them into force, which are the fruits produced by the competent departments of the two sides and the wisdom of multiple parties. This is a hard-won achievement that both sides should take great care of it. We will create more concrete results for the people on both sides."

Both of them highlighted the historic meeting between Xi Jinping and Ma Ying-jeou in Singapore in early November and promised to capitalize on the momentum⁴ created by that meeting.

1 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 well-being   

n.安康，安乐，幸福

参考例句：

• He always has the well-being of the masses at heart.他总是把群众的疾苦挂在心上。
• My concern for their well-being was misunderstood as interference.我关心他们的幸福，却被误解为多管闲事。

3 promotion   

n.提升，晋级；促销，宣传

参考例句：

• The teacher conferred with the principal about Dick's promotion.教师与校长商谈了迪克的升级问题。
• The clerk was given a promotion and an increase in salary.那个职员升了级，加了薪。

4 momentum   

n.动力，冲力，势头；动量

参考例句：

• We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
• The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。